I am designing a shoe. I had a problem with the design of the straps and it seems like a very difficult job.
I want to cross the straps crosswise according to the lower part of the image.
[![enter image description here][1]][1]

I tried to edit the different parts of the shoelace in edit mode, but it seems that the idea is not good at all. Is there a more logical solution to this?

[![enter image description here][2]][2]

As you can see, manual editing the mesh is not clean idea to do this.


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**Update**


According to the two methods proposed in the answers, the final output turned out like this:
[![enter image description here][3]][3]


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/EqHkq.png
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/dXFzU.png
  [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/QmxiL.jpg